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Speaker 1: The battlefield Today is Eddington Raceway, It's Cup Day and

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Speaker 1: somebody who's certainly no stranger to it is Methan's Ricky

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Speaker 1: May Morning.

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Speaker 2: Here you going.

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Speaker 1: Look, we haven't kept counts. You're not too sure how

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Speaker 1: many of this is for you?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I don't really know, but there'll be quite

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Speaker 2: a few by now around the studio. I would say, is.

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Speaker 1: The feeling still special? What is it about Cup Day

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, it's a big day out for all harness people.

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Speaker 2: I guess you know. It's the biggest day of the

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Speaker 2: year and the hardest day to win a race.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any special traditions or rituals good luck charms?

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Speaker 2: No, not really no, just turn up, be there on time.

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Speaker 1: Surely you'd have a special reserved parking spot or something

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Speaker 1: by now, No.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, definitely not.

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Speaker 1: Well, by my count, you've won the race seven times.

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Speaker 1: How much does it come down to the driver and

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Speaker 1: how much is on the horse?

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Speaker 2: Ah, I would say, yeah, the horse is number one

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Speaker 2: and there's no doubt about that. You know, he's got

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Speaker 2: to have a really good horse, a really good stayer,

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Speaker 2: and I mean yeah, probably a bit of luck as

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Speaker 2: well to be fear, but the ones I have when

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Speaker 2: the cut have sort of been very very good performances

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Speaker 2: most of them.

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Speaker 1: So today you're behind number fourteen American Me, which is

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Speaker 1: our only mid Canterbury entry trained by Brent and Tim White,

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Speaker 1: paying four hundred and one bucks. So I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you get the job done, we're burning the house down. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean he's he's a good two mile to

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Speaker 2: be fear. Just a shame he's got a bit of

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Speaker 2: a rough draw.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask about this, what do you

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Speaker 1: mean by rough draw?

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Speaker 2: Well, we draw one in the second row, you know,

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Speaker 2: so he's actually a really good beginner and he probably

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Speaker 2: needed to draw real good to be in the race.

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Speaker 2: He would be in the faysshie all the way and

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Speaker 2: you know he's face in the Cup two years ago.

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Speaker 2: So he can go two mile?

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Speaker 1: All right? Well you get my hopes up Matt Smith

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Speaker 1: from the tab Reckons that they've got this option where

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Speaker 1: you can place in the top eight. That's got to

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Speaker 1: be safe money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I guess it is, because there's no

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Speaker 2: doubt he'll go to two mile. It's just what sort

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Speaker 2: of run you yet?

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Speaker 1: Not well to be slightly ignorant, heres is the casual

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Speaker 1: observing DJ. On the surface, it looks cruisy, this whole

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Speaker 1: trotting thing. You know, you're riding around on the sulky

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Speaker 1: that we buggy behind the horse. What where's the skill?

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Speaker 1: Where's the you know, where's the discipline here? Ricky?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think everyone's a bit nervous about it. It's

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Speaker 2: just like every sport. I guess if you've got out

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Speaker 2: of it, you've got to give it your hundred percent,

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Speaker 2: don't you. So, you know, just it's just knowing how

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Speaker 2: the horses and drivers basically is a big thing, you know,

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Speaker 2: having a pretty good idea what everyone's going to do.

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Speaker 1: But is it true that you've got to be an

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Speaker 1: exact weight like boxing?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think most of the drivers, even though some

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Speaker 2: of them pretty tall, very light like you know, they're not,

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Speaker 2: don't weigh very heavy. So I think I think it

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Speaker 2: must help in the long run to see it.

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Speaker 1: But there's no way in as such.

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Speaker 2: No, not enhances racing.

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Speaker 1: No, okay, so you could smash the dirty bird as

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Speaker 1: a bit of a a way to allay the nerves

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Speaker 1: on you on your way in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it must.

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Speaker 1: Help being lighter, Hey, super Final question here. The colors

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Speaker 1: that you get to wear are they called the silks?

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Speaker 2: They're right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you get to choose that?

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Speaker 2: No, well all the trainers have got their own, so

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Speaker 2: you wear them. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So is there any fun story behind what you'll

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Speaker 1: be wearing today?

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Speaker 2: No, not really, just the white colors, which are you know, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the whites do a hell and good job.

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Speaker 2: The horses go well, so you know, it's a good

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Speaker 2: stable and you just got to hope for the best.

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Speaker 1: Wishing you all the best to right and looking forward

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Speaker 1: to getting behind American Me in the trotting carpets round

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Speaker 1: ten to six this afternoon. Certainly no stranger to it

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Speaker 1: is our Ricky mayet is